I Quit My Job and Run a Café - Chapter 121



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Episode 121

I don’t know if I should call it a blessing or not.

First of all, it wasn’t last place.

Of course, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t top tier. No, it wasn’t even middle tier.

“… … 23rd place.”

“How many people are in the class?”

“25 people. Hehehe… … .”

Are you laughing now?

Third place from behind… I knew that Su-ah wasn’t very interested in studying, but this is a bit much.

Han Song-i and Lee Seon-ah were also shocked and didn’t say anything.

“Sir, I couldn’t study properly for the midterm because I was practicing for the performance. It wasn’t like this at first.”

“Then what was it originally?”

“But I still made it into the top 20!”

“Oh, 19th place?”

Judging by your awkward expression, you’re right, you’re right.

Is this guy really okay?

“Well, isn’t that okay? There are things that are actually more important than studying. Things like character, manners, morals, and etiquette. I think that school exams are just about testing knowledge, and that kind of stuff isn’t reflected. And if that kind of stuff was reflected, the Su-ah I know would definitely be number one.”

Of course, what Han Song-i said in defense of Su-ah was understandable.

The test is clearly intended to test how much knowledge you have, not your personality or anything like that.

But that doesn’t mean that such knowledge isn’t important.

And crucially… … .

“Author. Do you have a university?”

“Ah, I’m from S University… … .”

I didn’t know this before when I looked at her profile. Han Song-i was a good student, enough to go to the top university in the country…

Of course, I became successful with webtoons and took a break from school until now.

anyway.

“Hey, sister, you’re a traitor!”

“Hey, you! Why is the author a traitor? Suah, you’re more of a traitor, you punk.”

“Eek… … .”

“What didn’t Suho say?”

“I don’t know, oppa… … .”

“Oh, really?”

Then it’s a bigger problem.

Swish!

“Baek Soo Ah, what did you just say?”

“omg?!”

Suho quietly approached Suah and whispered next to her. Lee Sunah got up slightly and made way for her.

And he was trying to leave quickly. It was the same with Hansong.

No, then me?

This is my cafe so I can’t really go anywhere.

“Come on, Suho. Sit down for now. Are you back after the game?”

“… … Yes, excuse me.”

“Excuse me, would you like something to drink?”

“No. I think I should go quickly.”

Where is that place? It doesn’t seem like a good place for Su-ah.

This, if I say something wrong and things don’t go well between us, it’ll be a problem.

Ah! A good idea occurred to me.

“No, everyone, please sit down for now. And the two people who are trying to run away too.”

Everyone was seated.

It was originally meant to be a volunteer group, but… … a more serious problem arose.

Since it has come to this, we decided to change it into an emergency response meeting.

“Sua, after school, come to the cafe and let’s tutor each other.”

“Tutoring?”

“Yes. There’s author Hansong, and there’s me. But I think we can teach at an elementary school level. What do you think?”

At the word tutoring, Suho also fell into thought for a moment.

Of course, I wasn’t trying to do anything grandiose.

Volunteer and tutor for about an hour.

“If you’re going to volunteer, tutor? Is that it?”

“Yes.”

I nodded to Hansong’s words.

She was also an important figure in this plan.

Because I was good enough to get into S University.

“But why don’t you ask me?”

“Huh? You? By the way, where did you say you went to college?”

“S University.”

“Huh? You too?”

What? Did I hear that wrong?

Or is S University actually just a common university name?

Lee Sun-ah’s expression looked quite unpleasant.

“What’s that look in your eyes?”

“Big. No, I’m just surprised. Who knew there were three S-Universities in our town?”

“……three?”

Well, if you include me, there are three.

“Hey, these traitors!”

Su-ah looked back and forth between me and the two people and then shouted.

I’m at a loss for words on this one.

But I did have something to say.

“In my time, there was something called a special admission process.”

“Special selection??”

“To be exact, it’s a special talent test. It disappeared because there was a lot of talk. Anyway! That’s not important, but Su-ah? What do you want to do?”

Everyone’s eyes were turned to Suah.

Actually, it wasn’t a matter of choice.

It’s a matter of survival.

“Ha, I’ll do it… … Hee-ing.”

Su-ah reluctantly nodded after seeing Su-ho’s gaze once.

For that guy, I offered him one thing, a chance to breathe.

“Let’s just say that Su-ah’s grades don’t fall below 20th place, right?”

So, I was telling Suho that to some extent, he should learn common sense as knowledge, and that it doesn’t mean that he should try to raise his grades by doing so.

And that also meant that I shouldn’t say anything to Su-ah too much.

“I like it. I like volunteering too.”

“I agree too.”

Since Han Song-i and Lee Seon-ah also agreed, this issue passed right away.

There is no reason for Suho to refuse, and what about Suah… … .

“If you have any plans to practice dancing or after school, please let me know in advance.”

“yes…….”

“Okay! So, let’s conclude this, and what are we going to do about the service?”

The discussion took a slightly different turn due to the shocking facts, but anyway, this group was created for volunteer purposes.

So I asked Suah, who had collected them.

Then the guy who had been gloomy until just now started to get excited and said.

“First of all, the village! Pick up the trash on the village streets.”

“I think the elders will like it. But I don’t think we see much trash in our village.”

“So, let’s do it lightly as our first volunteer service!”

Suah has everything planned out.

Except for grades.

Anyway, everyone responded to Su-ah’s words as she spoke excitedly again.

And that’s how we came to the conclusion. We’re going to have a volunteer meeting.

“Heh!”

… … What is it? I feel like I’ve been tricked.

* * *

Certainly, perhaps because of recent events, I felt the need to volunteer to pick up trash.

But, after all, service is service.

I couldn’t ignore my main job.

So I decided to do volunteer work once a week.

The reason was simple.

Although they are freelancers, Lee Seon-ah and Han Song-i’s work does not provide them with much freedom in terms of time.

The story was that it wasn’t easy to keep up with the schedule.

Sometimes I stay up all night, but it’s not something I do on a regular basis, it’s something I do when I get inspiration, so of course it can be irregular.

So it was right to work comfortably and set aside one day a week for volunteer work.

Of course, when Su-ah first said that, she didn’t expect that and planned it, so when I suggested that we modify it, she got a little upset.

Anyway, after that decision was made, I went to work the next day.

‘Because I have a lot of time.’

I went to work at a cafe and came out carrying a trash bag and long tongs.

And then I took a quick look around the cafe.

Come to think of it, Ms. Kim Hye-ju said that trash thrown away by customers was thrown around the cafe she ran.

That also caused inconvenience to the townspeople.

Of course, there’s only one bridge between here and the village, so the chances of it causing damage are low, but you never know. Besides, when Grandpa was here, there were quite a few guests…

“Hmm. There’s less than I thought.”

As I looked around, I saw some trash.

But they were trash that looked like they had been thrown away while climbing the mountain. There wasn’t any trash that would come out of a cafe.

Did Grandpa pick it up? Or maybe one of the guests who came here didn’t leave it behind.

“Anyway, this is easier than pulling out weeds.”

The area around the cafe is surrounded by mountains and forests, so it was a little difficult to walk around, but it was actually better.

Of course, that could be because there isn’t much trash yet.

“Even though you say it’s empty, it’s already a third full.”

As I walked around a bit, I noticed that there was definitely a lot of trash.

Bags and plastics that you don’t know when you threw them away. These things don’t even rot.

‘I don’t think it can be recycled, but I guess I’ll have to sort it.’

For some reason, sorting them out seemed like a more annoying and tedious task than collecting them.

After making a circle like that, I returned to the cafe. That’s all for today.

‘I did it because of Soo-ah, but I feel more satisfied than I thought.’

It’s also bitter.

I sorted the trash I picked up and organized it to put it out when I left work.

Garbage is collected at the garbage dump in front of the village and taken away all at once.

Twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays.

So, we decided to hold the service meeting on either Wednesday or Sunday, and we will vary it depending on each person’s schedule.

In fact, it is a volunteer concept and no one tells you to do it, so you can change it at any time.

Anyway, that’s what we decided on. The meeting place was, of course, the tiger shelter.

“As I live, I get to do things like this.”

It was fun.

Would I have done this when I was working at my previous job?

Well, I guess not. I’m busy with work, so who would have time for that?

If that were the case, I would never have felt this proud in my life.

‘Sua, you had a wonderful idea.’

I didn’t give you much praise at the time, but I’ll have to tell you about it when we meet next time.

By the way, I had a thought while picking up trash this morning. Is there a garbage truck coming to our village to clean up the trash?

I have never seen it before.

Are you coming at the crack of dawn?

On the empty days, it was already empty when I went to work in the morning.

Our village isn’t the only one in this countryside, so I think it’ll be pretty busy.

Even when I lived in the city, I never saw sanitation workers because they usually moved around at dawn.

‘Next time, I’ll wake you up a little earlier that day and give you a drink.’

I don’t think it’s necessary, but I had that thought again today while picking up trash.

It would have been really hard if you hadn’t come all the way here to empty the trash.

“Well, that’s that.”

Now that I’ve gone to work, I have to do my work.

Now that I’ve finished cleaning up the trash, I head straight to the garden.

There were two main things to do today.

One is to dry the raw coffee beans of Ssuksukki in a tori hole.

And the other is making drinks and desserts from the new crop, Campbell grapes.

Oh right! The aura that Song Jun-hyeok’s family gave yesterday, in addition to expanding Tori’s den, gave him another good thing.

>Sacrifice (2 stars)

It was the growth of sacrificial talent.

If you give healing to the same person again, will the talent you gained from that person be strengthened?

Well, time will tell, so it wasn’t something I had to do today.

Recently, there was a regular customer at the cafe.

So now… … .

“Let’s start by picking coffee cherries.”

Ssuksuk had grown so tall that it reached the roof of the cafe, so we had to use a ladder to collect the fruit.

I carefully climbed the wooden ladder and picked the coffee cherries into a basket.

The red ripe cherries are tempting.

“There are a lot. There are a lot. But do I have to get them all at once?”

Sararak~

“Huh? Are you okay?”

If you leave the fruit for too long, it will overripe and become a problem, but SsukSsuk says this is okay.

Is there any way to prevent it from overcooking?

“thank you.”

Sarak~

Whatever, it doesn’t matter.

I tapped the ssuksukki once and came down.

Before I knew it, I had filled a basket.

This was taken straight to Tori’s den and placed in the drying room.

And then we picked grapes.

It was a fruit with a sweet fragrance.

Long ago, when I was young, I was drawn to this smell and even went to work in other people’s fields.

‘I have a feeling that that might have been the village chief’s field.’

At the time, I didn’t know it was a big mistake, so it was something I could do.

It’s a big deal now.

Of course, I was punished back then, because I was stung by a bee that was attracted by a sweet scent.

Boohoo~ Boong~

Of course, in the garden, bees were busy moving around since morning.

“Bongbongi, you’re always absent from home and it’s okay for you to come out like this?”

Boo~

Thanks to Queen Bongbong, I never got stung.

I was a bit worried because you go out so often. Well, I guess you’ll figure it out.

I also picked a few ripe grapes.

And then you look at the text window,

[Campbell Grapes]

*situation

-Best

*effect

– Takeover

-Antibacterial

It had a somewhat unexpected effect.

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